Private rooms and Turns: drawing with your friends

The World board is for everyone. Rooms are for your people — friends, family, a class — on a board nobody else can see.

What a room is

A private room is a separate drawing board with its own code. Only people who join with the code can see or draw on it, and its chat is private to the room. It works the same as the World board: the same colors, brushes and tools, live drawing with everyone in the room at once.

Making and joining a room

Open the board, sign in, and open Rooms.
Tap Create room and give it a name. You’ll get a code. (Making rooms is part of the one-time Upgrade.)
Send the code to the people you want to draw with. They open Rooms, type the code and tap Join.

Anyone with a free account can join a friend’s room and draw up to 200 strokes a day in it. With the Upgrade you can make your own rooms, be in as many as you like, and draw without a stroke limit inside them.

Ideas for rooms

Class projects: a teacher makes a room, the class draws a map, a timeline or a story together, and the result can be saved as a picture.
Long-distance hangouts: doodle with friends while you’re on a call. It’s like passing a notebook back and forth, except everyone draws at once.
Planning a piece: sketch a group drawing in a room first, then take it to the World board on Monday when it’s fresh and empty.

Turns mode

Turns mode (part of the Upgrade) turns a room into a game: people take turns drawing, with a time or stroke limit for each turn. It’s great for drawing games, exquisite-corpse style pictures where each person adds one part, or just making sure everyone gets a go. Turns rooms are coming first to the Drawfitti app for iPhone and iPad — same account, same Upgrade.

Keeping a room friendly

Only share your code with people you trust. The person who made a room can kick anyone out of it, and the same rules apply as everywhere on Drawfitti: report anything that breaks them, and block anyone you don’t want to hear from.

Open Rooms on the board

More guides

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Last updated November 5, 2026